UAN vs. AVD, CRML, UUUU, MTUS, LAAC, EU, ASTL, WLKP, HAYN, and LAC
Should you be buying CVR Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CVR Partners include American Vanguard (AVD), Critical Metals (CRML), Energy Fuels (UUUU), Metallus (MTUS), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), enCore Energy (EU), Algoma Steel Group (ASTL), Westlake Chemical Partners (WLKP), Haynes International (HAYN), and Lithium Americas (LAC). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
CVR Partners (NYSE:UAN) and American Vanguard (NYSE:AVD) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
CVR Partners has a net margin of 14.26% compared to American Vanguard's net margin of 1.30%. CVR Partners' return on equity of 25.86% beat American Vanguard's return on equity.
American Vanguard has a consensus target price of $18.00, indicating a potential upside of 53.71%. Given American Vanguard's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe American Vanguard is more favorable than CVR Partners.
43.8% of CVR Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.0% of American Vanguard shares are held by institutional investors. 9.3% of American Vanguard shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
CVR Partners has higher revenue and earnings than American Vanguard. CVR Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Vanguard, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, CVR Partners had 11 more articles in the media than American Vanguard. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for CVR Partners and 2 mentions for American Vanguard. CVR Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat American Vanguard's score of 0.00 indicating that CVR Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CVR Partners pays an annual dividend of $6.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.4%. American Vanguard pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. CVR Partners pays out 85.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. American Vanguard pays out 44.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
American Vanguard received 88 more outperform votes than CVR Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.26% of users gave American Vanguard an outperform vote while only 59.18% of users gave CVR Partners an outperform vote.
CVR Partners has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Vanguard has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Summary
CVR Partners beats American Vanguard on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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